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AMD 64 Core Threadripper 3990X Seen Crushing $20K Xeon Platinum CPUs
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HotHardware
AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core Beast Seen Crushing $20K Of Xeon Platinum CPUs In Benchmark Leak
A benchmark entry shows strong performance from AMD's upcoming Threadripper 3990X, especially compared to two Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 workstation processors.
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Netflix's Junk Bonds Explain How We Are in a Corporate Debt Bubble
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Jumpstart Bankruptcy
Netflix’s Junk Bonds Explain How We are In a Corporate Debt Bubble
The corporate debt bubble is better understood through the lens of Netflix's addiction to debt and the unprecedented low yield of junk bonds.
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Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video]
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YouTube
Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990
An Amiga 500, Stereo Master and handful of $1 records from a 1990 Sunday market: Can we make a dance track on a budget home computer? Of course! Back when big-name dance tunes required big-budget-gear, a secondhand Amiga let you take the first steps to making…
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
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PNAS
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower…
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A new hash algorithm for Git
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lwn.net
A new hash algorithm for Git
The Git source-code management system is famously built on the SHA‑1
hashing algorithm,
which has become an increasingly weak foundation over the years. SHA‑1 is
now considered to be broken and, despite the fact that it does not yet seem
to be so broken…
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When a cleaner finds 5 euros at a Finnish office
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thisisFINLAND
“Only in Finland”: A story of banknotes, post-it notes and social media posts - thisisFINLAND
What happens when a cleaner in a Finnish office building finds five euros on the floor?
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The mystery of silphium, a lost Roman herb (2017)
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Bbc
The mystery of the lost Roman herb
Julius Caesar kept a cache of it in the government treasury and the Greeks even put it on their money. It was worth its weight in gold – but no one knows if it still exists.
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Rtty – Access a device’s terminal from anywhere via the web
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Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
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ZDNet
Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
Twitter discloses security incident involving the abuse of one of its official API features.
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Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya
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www.pri.org
Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya
Service providers don’t like to call it “cheating” — they prefer the terms “academic writing” and “online tutoring.”
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Show HN: Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities
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Everlook Jobs
Everlook Jobs | Home
Everlook makes it easy to find and list remote job opportunites. Create and find remote listings today.
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Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?
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The New Yorker
Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?
The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.
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App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested
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NY Times
App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested (Published 2020)
The app was quickly put together in the past two months and was not properly tested at a statewide scale, according to people briefed on the matter.
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Just because it's an RFC ID doesn't mean anything at all
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Runtime Compiled C++ Dear ImGui and DirectX11 Tutorial
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Enkisoftware
Runtime Compiled C++ Dear ImGui and DirectX11 Tutorial
This tutorial takes a small DirectX11 project, the Dear ImGui Example, and adds Runtime Compiled C++ to it for live editing.
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Google photos allowed the wrong users to download videos
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Twitter
Jon Oberheide
Whoa, what? @googlephotos?
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Digital publishing is beginning to make money
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Axios
Digital publishing is doing something it hasn't done en masse since the dawn of the Internet
Multiple companies turned a profit last year.
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Pathfinding Demystified (2014)
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Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
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Anti-cheat kernel driver
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Leagueoflegends
/dev/null: Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver
We’re protecting some of Riot’s upcoming games with new anti-cheat systems.
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Google has a backdoor to track individual users per Chrome installation ID
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GitHub
Partial freezing of the User-Agent string · Issue #467 · w3ctag/design-reviews
Goedenavond TAG! This is not your typical spec review, and is highly related to #320. But, because @torgo asked nicely, I'm opening up a review for a specific application of UA-CH as a replacem...
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